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Why Short Stories?
There’s been a lot of chat going on recently about short stories, including on the radio, this week’s Open Book had Aminatta Forna giving a potted history of the short story from Poe, Chekhov and Saki to Helen Simpson, and even Ramblings (a walking programme … fascinating, listen!) had Claire Balding in company with short…
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Fantasy Marketing
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Self-Publishing and e-Books
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Judging a Book By Its Cover
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From First Idea to Last Word
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Seismic Acrobats
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From Ireland to Mexico
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Living with Carnivores
The Cats have excelled themselves. Not content with hibernating away from the cold weather, (normal positions on a cold night, J against one leg, E against the other, each with head pillowed on a shin, me pinned and wakeful) they’ve been out hunting overnight. The garden is crisscrossed with catly footprints. Generally speaking, Jules is…
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Interview with Joan Taylor-Rowan author of The Bird Skin Shoes
I’m posting a series of short snatches of interview with Joan Taylor-Rowan, Author of The Birdskin Shoes. In this first section Joan talks about the inspiration for the title, and the connections between her own Irish roots and Joey’s escapades in Mexico, by way of religious imagery… its a far reaching book! listen here! joan…
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Monday: Musical Theatre at Blackheath
There’s rather more theatre in this musical theatre lark than I quite anticipated. Maybe it just feels like that because we are improvising, so there’s a lot being tried out that won’t get into the final product. We reviewed our memory of what we were doing with Under Pressure and our scene on the train…
Cherry Potts, Writer 